That someone being my manager. I’m the lead of KS3 and lead of literacy. My manager had asked me to fill in a form in relation to literacy updates for the whole school and I did as it needs to be included in our new prospectus. I then said I’m thinking about doing x/y/z also. One was, let’s do x book for the ERIC at the end of x lesson for x amount of time. And her response was “hmm yeah I don’t like that particular text” okay fine, I said we do have a back order on that particular set of books though so shall we just get rid of them or put them somewhere else? Her “yeah but to introduce it I want it to be this book” I said fine okay, fair enough. And just carried on marking.
Then I said I’ve also mentioned getting us set up with a training slot for the new system her response “yeah I did speak to slt about me trying to talk to staff about that at some point”
Overall, I’m just feeling a lot like she’s stepping on my toes with whatever I do with literacy and trying to make it her thing. But it’s actually not, she’s new and I knew from the moment she came in, she wasn’t really going to match up to our previous manager in her people skills. And her repeated phrase of “we’re a team and I’m not a dictator” at the start created suspicions that are now seemingly correct.
im just annoyed, I know my stuff, she’s far less heavily timetabled than me so can look into certain things but I really feel like it makes me look like I’m crap when she seeks things out and starts implementing them without consulting me.